Leaders of the Liszt Academy and its Kodály Institute payed tribute at Farkasrét Cemetery, Budapest.

Staff members at the Kecskemét-based institute of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music have discovered the original manuscript of the composer’s Op. 2, Wind Quintet, written in 1959, among the literary estate of the musicologist László Eősze. The centenarian composer himself shared details about the historically significant document.

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In the Hungarian pavilion of this year's world fair in the Japanese metropolis, Gábor Csaba, Deputy State Secretary for Cultural Diplomacy as well as Liszt Academy’s vice president Gyula Fekete and Judit Rajk, Director of the Kodály Institute held a presentation.

This year's QS World University Rankings by Subject placed the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music 24th in the Performing Arts category and 12th in music education, which means it is among the best higher education institutions in the world.

Greetings on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Professor Péter Erdei, founding director of the Kodály Institute.

Especially for those who, as native speakers of Spanish, want to pursue their music studies in English.

Application deadline: 25 November, 2024

The building of the Liszt Academy’s Kecskemét institution was modernized and outfitted with additional classrooms and state-of-the-art educational technology during an extensive, multi-year reconstruction.

Some seventy-five Hungarian and foreign students, along with their instructors, went on a three-day field trip recently to Győr, Rohrau, Eisenstadt, Eszterháza, and Sopron.

Dr. Zsuzsanna Polyák received the honorable invitation in a unanimous vote at the Society's extraordinary general meeting.

Applications are ongoing. Final deadline: 31 May 2024 the latest.

We are offering 8-week intensive preparatory courses in the spring for those who wish to apply to our MA or BA degree programmes.

Date: 8 April - 31 May, 2024

On 8 September the 2023-2024 Academic Year officially began at the Institute in the BA, MA and non-degree training courses with students from 18 different countries.

We are delighted to announce that the Evaluation Report of our Erasmus+ project PRESTO has awarded a world-class score of 96/100 to the project!

Below is the letter of welcome and farewell by Dr Andrea Vigh, President of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music.

Dr. Mihály Ittzés, regular member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, former deputy director of the Kodály Institute

Mihály Ittzés' rich oeuvre still stands as an example to all of us who worked with him at the Kodály Institute.

The highly recognised Move mi Music application is now available in 7 languages: Chinese (simplified), French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish versions have been launched to enrich the already existing original languages, English and Hungarian.

The International Kodály Musicianship Certificate is a new initiative that aims at raising awareness in the importance of general musicianship training for all professional musicians and music educators.

The aim of Katalin Kiss' book is to support conservatory students (aged 14-22) and their teachers with a collection of carefully selected materials from which to learn the necessary musical concepts and practical knowledge of music theory, form, and harmony.